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Dave Kerpen is the co-founder and CEO of Likeable, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm comprised of communications and consultancy agency Likeable Media, and software platform Likeable Local. Kerpen and wife Carrie lead a team of over 60 people in working with brands, organizations, governments and small businesses to better leverage social media to become more transparent, responsive, engaged and likeable. Likeable was named to both the 2011 and 2012 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S.

Kerpen's first book, a New York Times, USA Today and Amazon number-one bestseller, is titled Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (and Other Social Networks). His second book is Likeable Business: Why Today’s Consumers Demand More & How Leaders Can Deliver. (McGraw-Hill, November 2012).

Kerpen is a frequent keynote speaker at venues around the world and a contributing writer for Mashable, Inc, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Forbes and The Washington Post. His work has been featured on CNBC’s On the Money, ABC World News Tonight, The CBS Early Show, BBC World News and The New York Times, among others.

#StartupLab is a free virtual mentorship program created by The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of over 500 of America’s most successful young entrepreneurs who have, collectively, generated tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. #StartupLab offers millions of entrepreneurs, small business owners and startup founders the tactical advice they need to launch and grow new businesses via live, interactive video chats, educational content and mentorship opportunities — right on Facebook.

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